Your Workplace

The social services sector is tasked with contributing to good living conditions throughout life for people residing in Härryda municipality. The sector is divided into five operational areas: Care and Support, Functional Support, Health and Assistance, Integration and Labor Market, Children and Family. Common to the sector is an administrative unit and a development and follow-up unit.

We are now looking for a project manager for 2026 to drive the Healthy Aging project. Healthy Aging is part of the social services sector's work to adapt to the new Social Services Act regarding, among other things, preventive and easily accessible work.

The position is placed in the Health Promotion unit, which is organized within the Health and Assistance operational area. The unit's mission is to offer preventive measures aimed at helping the target group maintain independence, health, and combat involuntary loneliness. Implementation occurs through measures without needs assessment, such as open senior meetings, group activities, advisory measures, and group support. The unit collaborates with various actors both internally and externally, such as associations, congregations, study associations, etc.

Within the unit, 8 employees work with roles such as leisure assistant, relative consultant, fixer, health navigator, and unit manager. Supporting the unit's activities is a large number of volunteers with volunteer assignments.

You will work closely with the unit manager for the health promotion unit and report to the steering group for Healthy Aging.

Your Mission

As a project manager, you will drive the work based on the developed action plan for Healthy Aging. The work is part of the administration's public health efforts and aims to promote an age-friendly society. The action plan is based on four thematic areas, and you will lead the work forward. You will lead the overall work forward. In certain sub-areas of the action plan, you will be responsible for the operational work. The assignment includes collaboration and cooperation with a range of actors such as associations and civil society, community planning, and actors within care and support in the municipality as well as health centers.

Requirements for the Position

• Experience in project management
• Relevant higher education with a focus on sociological social analysis or equivalent education
• Experience in collecting and analyzing demographic data.
• Ability to express oneself verbally and in writing
• Experience in collaboration with civil society and the association life

To obtain employment, a certificate from the Police's criminal record must be presented.

Your Personal Qualities Are Important to Us

• You have a great ability to collaborate with other actors both within the municipality and with external actors.
• You can take responsibility and initiative for your tasks.
• You enjoy driving and leading improvement work.
• You are structured and have the ability to work independently and organize and plan your work well.
• You have good collaboration skills and the ability to be flexible.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

What We Offer You

• You work in a stable work group together with knowledgeable and experienced colleagues with good collegial cooperation.
• Your unit manager is accessible with a trust-based leadership style where you and the workgroup have significant participation and insight into the unit's mission, goals, and development.
• You are offered a stimulating and varied job with personal responsibility and the opportunity to plan your work yourself.
• As an employee, you have access to a generous wellness allowance.

Read more on our website about what we offer you. (https://www.harryda.se/arbete/arbetaiharrydakommun/detharerbjudervidig.4.4bd770a51817ff14fcd13400.html (https://www.harryda.se/arbete/arbetaiharrydakommun/detharerbjudervidig.4.4bd770a51817ff14fcd13400.html))

About Härryda Municipality

Härryda is a municipality that dares!

Here we aim to have Sweden's best schools and business climate, care of the highest quality, and attractive community building. Together, we are 3,000 employees who make the meeting with Härryda municipality simple. With courage, innovation, and action, we inspire each other and deliver service with competence and quality. Härryda municipality has ranked at the top of Dagens Samhälle's annual ranking of the Super Municipality of the Year for the past four years.

We are looking for you who are engaged, open to different perspectives, and want to create solutions that hold for future generations. You can find us between Gothenburg and Borås with Landvetter Airport right in the municipality. Together we achieve more!

Other Information

Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

We would like to inform you that your application is a public document under the principle of public access to information. If you as an applicant have protected personal information, please send your application in paper form to: Härryda Municipality, Human Resources, Sofia Götberg, 435 80 Mölnlycke. Your application will be handled according to the municipality's routine for handling protected personal information during recruitment and employment. Please indicate the reference number of the advertisement in your application so we know which position you are applying for. As a first choice, we prefer that you apply for the position via our recruitment system. In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made a decision regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.